Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 5 Aug 2003 20:31:37 +0000 | From | Arjan van de Ven <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Export touch_nmi_watchdog |
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On Tue, Aug 05, 2003 at 01:25:09PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > On 5 Aug 2003, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > > > > having a more generic/portable "trigger_watchdog" function would be > > better then, such that ALL watchdogs, and not just the NMI one can hook > > into this > > Why are we working around broken drivers? > > I say: > - either fix the driver > or > - disable the watchdog entirely. > > I don't see any point at all to touch_xxx_watchdog() from a driver.
In principle you are soooo right. Just that it sometimes is HARD to fix such long delays... I remember working on the qla2x00 driver to fix that ;( Ok "it's hard" is no excuse. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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